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Hardtack vs Skillygalee - What's the difference?

hardtack | skillygalee |

As nouns the difference between hardtack and skillygalee

is that hardtack is (nautical) a large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships while skillygalee is (obsolete|nautical) a type of gruel made from oatmeal.

hardtack

English

(wikipedia hardtack)

Alternative forms

* hard tack

Noun

(en-noun)
  • (nautical) A large, hard biscuit made from unleavened flour and water; formerly used as a long-term staple food aboard ships.
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    Synonyms

    * (hard biscuit) pilot biscuit, pilot bread, sea biscuit, sea bread, ship's biscuit, ship biscuit

    See also

    * reefer's nut * softtack

    skillygalee

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete, nautical) A type of gruel made from oatmeal
  • * 2005 Gregory Fremont-Barnes, Steve Noon, Nelson's Sailors , Osprey Publishing, p24
    • Breakfast was served at 8am and sometimes consisted of skillygalee , a sort of oatmeal gruel prepared in fatty water and which by the time of Trafalgar included butter and sugar.
  • (obsolete) A thin broth prepared by soaking hardtack in water, and frying with pork fat
  • * 2004 Brian Leehan, Pale Horse at Plum Run: The First Minnesota at Gettysburg , Minnesota Historical Society Press, p200
    • Skillygalee was born of left-over pork grease and crackers too tough to bite and chew.